Inviting Bennett S. LeBow to the board of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston was a novel idea. But in the end, asking Mr. LeBow, chairman and chief executive of the Vector Group, a cigarette maker, to oversee the care of people with lung...

Globalstar, the bankrupt satellite phone company, agreed yesterday to sell control of itself to an investment firm run by Bennett S. LeBow for $55 million. Loral Space and Communications, Qualcomm and other investors had sunk about $4 billion...

The Philip Morris Companies, the nation's biggest cigarette maker, paid a small competitor's legal bills for months in an effort to buy its silence about the dangers of smoking, a lawyer for flight attendants suing the tobacco industry said today. ...